The general rule of transparency is to make you look good and strong, not like a feeble-minded limp dick.

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    Wouldn’t it be more useful and/or timely to call them directly instead of posting on social media?

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    If ISRAEL drops a Bomb they’re going in TIMEOUT!

    DONALD J TRUMP MANLIEST MAN WITH THE BIGLIEST HANDS

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      Bombing Israel for violating a ceasefire would be unbelievably based but it won’t happen

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    Baby’s first diplomatic relations.

    And boy is it a magnificent debacle.

    Trump is at least consistent - fuck things up, then pause the fuckup to pat himself on his back and demand praise for not fucking things up even more. Then once the news cycle progresses, continue fucking things up even worse. He’s such a master of this fail technique!

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    IT ISN’T A CEASEFIRE UNLESS ALL PARTIES SIGN IT.

    GORK, SHITPOSTER IN THE UNITED STATES

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      That’s the most baffling part. I never had a high opinion of the general populations intelligence. But you got to be a goddamn moron to be impressed by the current president. It’s not hyperbole to say I’ve lost all faith and humanity.

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        Yep. So many people flying their stupid Taco flags and wearing their “Let’s Go Brandon” shirts and so on just seemingly have no idea how normal people view Taco.

        To me, it’s like watching the stupidest kid in the class with his underwear on his head and smearing feces on the wall. And I’m hardly alone in that view - Taco is and always has been a ridiculous and unserious dumbass. And these people think he’s not only the best Republican candidate for office, they think he’s the best they’ve ever had.

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            taco flags

            Haha, it would be funny if they started literally adopting that just like they adopted “deplorable”, but I’ve not seen that yet. I sure hope it happens - that would probably be about the same take as some of them adopting the teabagger thing (before they realized, oops, that might make them look gay, and can’t have that, lol!) - more or less calling their hero a chicken is not going to be a good look.

            I mean Taco fans flying capitol-T Taco regalia from China.

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        But you got to be a goddamn moron to be impressed by the current president.

        The joke of American politics is that you’ll have two candidates run by smearing each other into the dirt. One of them will squeak out a win and get a few months of being The Most Charismatic Person On Earth because of a marginal victory largely on EC winner-take-all. But the TV/Radio will say this person is INCREDIBLY POPULAR and people will be brow-beaten into believing it.

        Then that person will actually attempt to govern, fumble the ball for a while, and watch the media turn on them. Popularity will plummet and the opposition will come out of the woodwork insisting “Our Guy Would Have Been Better”. Except its a media cycle driven by incompetency and corruption at the elected level. It’s inevitably a false choice, because everyone on the ballot was one flavor of corporate shill or another from the get-go.

        By the end, all you have left is an argument over who would have been worse. Everyone calls everyone else a moron for thinking the wrong things. Nobody seems capable of identifying quality leadership, because quality leaders don’t have an in with corporate media to inflate their celebrity profiles.

        It’s cargo cults all the way down.

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    Oh wait, do you mean he is finally starting to realize Israel is (In this case) the bad guy in the dispute?

    PS Yes, yes, yes, I know, Iran isn’t “the good guy” in most respects, I mean in the case of this war.

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    Why does he keep posting this stuff on Truth Social. He just looks so amateure. Which other world leader posts on social media like this?

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      A lot of them unfortunately, at least in Europe every other news article quotes a politican’s Twitter post

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      What other world leaders will even see his posts directly? I mean, I can’t imagine any other country taking his Truth Social seriously enough to join it in an official capacity

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        I’m sure every major government has staffers that monitor the public (and sometimes private) communications of other world leaders. That means there are people who work in say Iran, or Israel or Nigeria who are on Truth Social just so they can brief higher-ups about what Trump is doing and saying.

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          Oh, definitely. It would probably be irresponsible to not monitor his media unofficially. It’s the way he is acting like this is an official method of open communication to mediate between governments that’s ridiculous to me. Maybe I’ve forgotten how things were before Twitter shut his account down, but I’m still amazed he doesn’t have people who can get him to understand how bad this is

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        He’s not talking to anyone but his echo chamber there. It doesn’t matter who else sees it so long as his followers do.

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      We already did all this. I guess most people were - in boarding school or something, idk, but we did allll of this before.

      He’s a demented malignant narcissist. For the moment, forget that he’s a rapist, a crook, a fraud, corrupt as the day is long, a tool of russia, and so very, very far from whatever the ideals idiot evangelicals think he embodies.

      He only has one filter: how does [insert subject] benefit him? There are NO other considerations; he is incapable of them.

      From there he goes to the most direct way to achieve the benefit to himself. If one does not exist he follows the Clap-o-meter, or, failing that, whatever the last thing was that someone next to him said.

      It produces such very sad, incompetent chaos. Anyone who didn’t do something to stop him should be very ashamed. But, like trump, the cult doesn’t “do” shame and so here we are again.